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NEW DELHI: Country's major steel makers are set to add around 24 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) capacity through brownfield expansions by 2017-18 involving investments to the tune of Rs one lakh crore.

The current capacity of the ten major Indian steel makers stands at 54.5 mtpa and this will go up to 78.5 mtpa by FY'18 with the ongoing capacity expansions at their existing plant locations, according to a Steel Ministry data.

Over half of the proposed expansions will come from the two state-run firms -- Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL). It normally takes about Rs 4,000 crore investment to hike steel capacity by one million tonnes.

SAIL's capacity expansion in all of its five major plants will take its capacity to 21.40 mtpa from 12.84 mtpa now, RINL is on the verge of completing its expansion to seven mtpa from three mtpa now.

Tata Steel's capacity will increase, through brownfield expansions, at its Jamshedpur facility to 9.7 mtpa from 6.8 mtpa now. Capacity of JSW Steel would also go up to 16.5 mtpa from 14.3 mtpa at present.

Essar Steel, which has recently increased its capacity at its Hazira plant to 10 mtpa, however, is not going for a further increase, the data showed.

Among the firms having lower capacity presently, Jindal Steel and Power's capacity through brownfield expansions will go up by 0.75 mtpa to 4.25 mtpa by FY'18, it said.

Bhushan Steel' would add around two mtpa capacity to take the tally to 5.2 mtpa. Monnet Ispat & Energy and Visa Steel are also expanding their respective capacities.

India's total steel making capacity, including that of the secondary producers, at the end of 2011-12 stood at 89.29 mtpa and is projected to expand to 200 mtpa by 2020.